As was Godot; as is India As it is all the time Just as Pakistan and just as China, And no more does anything rhyme. Newspapers say after demonetisation India has now become Bharot The name my grandmother had with a Bengali diction She did see things beyond her eyeshot. Tho’ she was already 80 Perhaps she knew how Bharot is, is, for real As is war, as is military and as is military as it is As it comes in hunter green and with extendable steel It is evident When in foothills hundreds of folks are dying There’s no settlement, It seems nobody knows nothing But that’s not the end of the story; Bharot will never know There are things like impotency Just as it was, several empires ago. Now there’s no hope Except for some fictional political absurdity We need no microscope or telescope For this Bharot or Indian thingy We have a popular story: Of a monkey distributing chapati; India is the monkey Bharot is the copy People say they have learnt it from England And it seems it’s fine As